The 2026 World Freestyle Wrestling Championships began on Thursday, November 7 in Astana with two Olympic weights and followed this Friday with another 4 weights. Tonight, the assignment of two weights was determined by the distribution of medals, and both golds went to the Yankees. Today, they had four representatives in the other four weights in the semi-finals, but fortunately only one went to the finals, otherwise, just like us in wrestling, the task of winning the tournament would have been determined early.
At the end of the medal ceremony for the first two weights today, two golds went to America and two bronzes, but the lesson of these events was bigger and more important than the value of the two medals. The Americans took the wrestlers who beat our two champions, Tawanian Armen and Arash Yoshida of Japan who took Rahman and Hassan. Today Kamran Ma also lost to a Kyrgyz who lost to Kyle Dick like chocolate and by a margin.
Both Yazdani and Amouzad, by returning to their true version and the style they are famous for, competently and easily won two big names, while they had lost to Vazgen and Arash by changing their methods. This means we have to be ourselves, this is enough for a medal and championship.
65 kilos; Young Yankee waiting for Rahman
Vazgen Tovanian was a defensive and stunt wrestler who, by Rahman’s own mistake, raised his hand against him. In the final against the newly arrived young American, he had nothing to say and was defeated with a high score like drinking water. Fortunately, Rahman returned to his usual form and defeated the famous Shamil Mamedov, who lost to him last time in the same world ranking and fell short of a medal.
With the style that this new American had, everyone is waiting for his confrontation with Rahman and in regret this year that the opportunity was gone. He himself was waiting for Rahman in the finals more than others, two fighting and energetic wrestlers who attack until the last moment.
97 kilos; The tradition of Yazdani did not break
The most decorated wrestler in our history became the first to overcome a shoulder injury. After two years away from the mat, he moved up two weights to prepare for the Los Angeles Olympics. Yazdani, who had 4 Olympic champions and 10 world Olympic medalists, had won Yoshida’s wrestling by one hundredth of a second, but no matter what, after 9 years, he experienced wrestling again with luck.
Yazdani won the big Tajuddin in the ranking. He can easily stand next to Saadullah F on the third platform and now has two bronze medals in addition to 4 golds and 5 silvers. Kyle Snyder also won the Japanese youngster in the final. With the same equal result, he raised his hand against the Russian tank. In this way, our Yazdani returned with his 11th medal.
61 kilos; The child of Mashhad beat everyone!
Ahmad Javan, who beat all competitors to the finals last year with excellent scores, lost to Zaur Ogoev – Olympic and world champion from Russia – with excellent scores! This year, on the contrary, he beat everyone to reach the finals again with Zaur Oguev, in the first match he gave an 8-point advantage 9-8 and lost the last second, in the match with the American he won 2-2 with the last point! A repeated story in the semi-final, which we hope will not reach last year’s result in the final!
70 kilos; The force of Iranians does not reach this Mongol
In 2022, Rahman Amozad, as the champion and star and phenomenon of the world championships who won the whole world with authority, lost in the finals of the Hangzhou Asian Games to everyone’s surprise. That Mongol took away Sina Khalili today to become a taboo for Iranians. Khalili was good until the quarter, but this Mongol lost in the semi-final so that Sina was also eliminated. American Rutherford also lost in this weight and did not reach the finals.
86 kilos; Damn it
Kamran Ghasempour had the hardest draw among Iranian heroes. The others rested in the first round, Kamran had to come to the mat. It is against the Olympic champion who defeated Hasan Yazdani in a cowardly manner and constantly sings for Kamran Curry. He beat Ramazanov with a 4-point score, but against an unknown Kyrgyz, he got hit while going under.
Everyone was waiting for Kamran’s quarter-final match with American Kyle Dick, and the winner had to face Cadif from Russia!
The Kyrgyz wrestler was a defender, like a Mongol, and did not know how to attack. Maybe Kamran would have won easily if he had allowed it to reach the second time. Of course, the world accepts that this incident happened every 10 years and unfortunately it happened to our Kamran. Maybe he will have problems against the world champion in the next stages, but losing to an unknown rival like this was really bitter. Dick went to the final to defend the traditional American gold in this weight (with Taylor and Valencia the year before).
125 kilos; The world longs to get points from Zare
Amir Hossein Zare is one of those geniuses who can only lose to themselves. Like what he did at the 2022 world championships and gave the gold medal to Taha Akgul personally in 5 seconds before the end of the race. But if he doesn’t want to, all the competitors from all over the world can’t even get a single point from him! Dirtying which has two points is nothing, even pushing out the mat or getting a warning point was a regret that left everyone’s heart.
Amir Hossein was the same as always. He came on the mat three times and the sum of his three fights did not reach 6 minutes! He won all over ten to zero with a great score and went to the finals. The final, the result of which is already known! He is coming to break the record of his fellow city in Ferangi, Farzin Hedayati needed 42 seconds to get 8 points and world gold. Amir Hossein should get 10 points and the poor wrestler who has to fight against him in this situation!
